by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jun 8, 2020 | News
The U.S. prison population continued a multiyear decline in 2018, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report published in late April 2020. Overall, there was a 1.6% decrease in the total prison population in 2018, falling from nearly 1.49 million inmates...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | May 14, 2019 | News
The U.S. prisons population declined again in 2017, continuing a multiyear trend, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report published in late April. At the end of that year, the U.S. prison population was nearly 1.5 million people (at the state and...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jun 18, 2018 | News
Eighty-three percent of U.S. inmates were arrested at least once within the nine years following their release from incarceration, according to a U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report released on May 23. Many previous studies measured recidivism over a three-...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | May 7, 2018 | News
The total number of people in the U.S. correctional system and the number of inmates under sentence of death in U.S. prisons both declined in 2016, according to Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) statistical briefs published in late April. Slightly more than 6.6...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 24, 2018 | News
U.S. prisons saw an overall population decline in 2016, continuing a three-year trend in both federal and state facilities, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report released on Jan. 9. Overall, there were 21,200 fewer prisoners in 2016 than in 2015, a 1...
